(Honesdale, December 14, 2014)…Wayne Memorial Hospital is proud to announce it is now officially a certified Primary Stroke Center. Accreditation was awarded this month by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Healthcare and officially recognized by the Pennsylvania State Department of Health.

(Honesdale, November 10, 2014)…The Board of Trustees of Wayne Memorial Hospital and Health System welcomed new leadership at its October 29th board meeting at the hospital. Lee Oakes, who had served as chair since 2009 and on the board altogether for 12 years, stepped down and fellow trustee Dirk Mumford assumed his new role as chairman. The Northern Wayne county resident and former Exxon executive joined the Board in 2007.

(Honesdale, PA, April 3, 2014)…Wayne Memorial Hospital is proud to announce the launch of a new patient portal called myWMH. The site offers patients “easy, secure, confidential” online access to many of their health records at Wayne Memorial Hospital, including laboratory and imaging test results.

Honesdale, PA (July 23, 2013) -- Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC) is pleased to announce that board-certified psychiatrist Rashesh Dholakia, MD, MPH, has joined the staff of the Behavioral Health Center. The Center is an outpatient treatment facility that provides behavioral and mental health services to adults, adolescents and children in Pike and Wayne counties.

More doctors, hospitals partner to coordinate care for people with Medicare

(Honesdale, March 29, 2013) … Wayne Memorial Hospital, Geisinger Health System and Evangelical Community Hospital have partnered to form Keystone Accountable Care Organization, one of 106 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) for patients with Medicare, as recently announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Honesdale, PA (January 8, 2013) – Lori Wood, a registered dental hygienist and Public Health Dental Hygiene Practitioner employed by the Together for Health Dental Center for over 10 years, is the first in her field in northeast Pennsylvania to become a certified Community Dental Health Coordinator (CDHC).

(Honesdale, November 28, 2012)…One of the most respected information technology groups in the country will recognize Wayne Memorial Hospital at its annual conference next year for electronic medical records (EMR) implementation. According to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Wayne Memorial is in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide to achieve a Stage 6 designation for EMR.

Honesdale, PA (November 19, 2012) – Salvador Guerrero, D.O., F.A.C.S., board-certified general surgeon/board-eligible vascular surgeon, has joined the medical staff of Wayne Memorial Hospital. Dr. Guerrero is currently seeing patients at Honesdale Surgical Associates, a part of Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC), located at the Stourbridge Medical and Professional Complex. He will also be holding office hours at the Pike Family Health Center, 750 Route 730 in Lords Valley beginning next month.

(Honesdale, October 31, 2012) …Wayne Memorial Hospital has initiated its Phone Emergency Preparedness Plan due to difficulties with both incoming and outbound calls in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Under this plan, the public and Wayne Memorial staff are required to limit calls to and from the hospital for only emergency, high-priority and essential calls. True emergency calls should be directed to 9-1-1, which has an alternate method of communicating with the hospital. Calls within the hospital, from department to department, are not affected.

(Honesdale, July 30, 2012)…Wayne Memorial Hospital has successfully proven “meaningful use” of its multi-million-dollar Electronic Health Records (EHR) system to the federal government. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded the non-profit community hospital an “incentive” payment for EHR implementation for almost $1.4 million dollars.

Wayne Memorial Hospital’s medical staff has a new president, David Caucci, MD and vice president, Scott Epstein, MD. Dr. Caucci, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, steps up from his position as vice president and replaces outgoing president Robert Dohner, DO.